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Osa Atoe, a Louisiana artist, creates expressive terracotta pottery inspired by African and Native American cultures. 

Louisiana pottery maker Osa Atoe draws inspiration from African culture

By Corrine Pritchett February 12, 2017

Osa Atoe, a 38-year-old woman from Virginia now living in Louisiana, found a new way to spend her time and express herself here in Baton Rouge: by using pottery. In 2013, Atoe took up pottery as a new...

A piece crafted by Laura Montagnino is displayed on the floor on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 at BREC's Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center.

Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center presents fiber art show, “Swamp 20”

By Abbie Shull February 3, 2017

BREC’s Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center kicks off its 20th anniversary celebration with the fiber art show “Swamp 20,” which they hope continues their goal of connecting the community to...

A sticky note states, "This battle came a year after the Emancipation Proclamation. These ships were manned by freedmen," on Sunday, Jan. 29 in the LSU Museum of Art.

LSU Museum of Art takes community feedback, hopes to create a more cohesive narrative

By Rachel Rathle January 31, 2017

Museum Hack Day, an event that invited the community to participate in an important conversation about art, asked participants to jot down their ideas of the permanent art collection, “Art in Louisiana,”...

Baton Rouge Gallery will present Surreal Salon 9, featuring artists selected by Greg Simkins.

Annual pop-surrealist art exhibition Surreal Salon 9 on display at Baton Rouge Gallery

By Abby King January 14, 2017

Baton Rouge Gallery opened Surreal Salon 9, an annual art exhibition highlighting the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement in American Contemporary art, on Jan. 4. The exhibit will be on display until Jan....

David Losavio uses vibrant colors in his pop artwork to express boldness and give each painting an individual touch.

LSU student uses pop art as creative outlet, stress relief

By Corrine Pritchett January 11, 2017

University information systems and decision sciences student and artist David Losavio, also known as DLo, was born and raised in Baton Rouge. Losavio comes from a family of eight siblings and has been...

Gerry Wubben's art on display on Dec. 1, 2016 at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in downtown Baton Rouge.

‘Passages of Time’ exhibit features charcoal drawings, depicts people’s lives in moments of time

By Allie Cobb December 1, 2016

Reaching new heights, McNeese State University professor Gerry Wubben will display his work in a Louisiana Art & Science Museum exhibit set to open Dec. 3. The exhibit, Passages of Time, will feature...

Some of Beth Moon's photographs on display on Nov. 30, 2016 at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in downtown Baton Rouge.

LASM displays Diamond Nights photography exhibit, connects trees to astronomy

By Allie Cobb November 30, 2016

Do trees and astronomic phenomena relate? Research says they do. As does photographer Beth Moon, who cleverly displays the juxtaposition of the Baobab and Quiver trees against the Milky Way in a Louisiana...

Baton Rouge event coordinator and music manager, Patrick Harrington speaks about his business ventures on Nov. 21, 2016 at Highland Coffees on Highland Rd.

Spanish Moon’s ‘Bando’ events aim to provide inclusive space for local music acts

By Cynthea Corfah November 22, 2016

Patrick Harrington was tired of attending the same events in Baton Rouge when he became an event coordinator in January 2013. As event coordinator for the live music and art showcase, “The Bando,”...

The Market Magazine & Sixth Owner Amy Radle sits in the store on Magazine Street around some of the merchandise available to shoppers.

Post-flood, Baton Rouge artists flock to New Orleans mixed-merchant store

By Meg Ryan, Manship School News Service November 21, 2016

Along New Orleans’ Magazine Street, Amy Radle walked into a new business venture, bringing various artists and vendors under one roof, many of them artistic refugees affected by the great 2016 Baton...

A photo of Malcolm X reading a news article is on display on Nov. 16, 2016, as part of the "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for the Civil Rights" exhibit at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen.

West Baton Rouge Museum hosts civil rights exhibit, shows brutality of racism

By Allie Cobb November 16, 2016

In August 1955, white supremacists murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till. His grieving mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, distributed the photo of his mutilated corpse to the media, believing that if Americans could...

LSU Manship graduate student Stazhia Pleasant paints as a way to relieve stress and sells her work on Etsy on Monday Nov. 14, 2016, in the LSU Union.

Graduate student paints to alleviate stress, sells art on Etsy

By Raykael Morris November 15, 2016

While most college students experience stress, many do not have a healthy outlet to channel their anxiety. Manship graduate student Stazhia Pleasant, however, paints through her pain. Pleasant began painting...

Students display their work at the Ceramic Art Students Association's bi-annual pottery and ceramic art sale on Nov. 14, 2016 in front of the Student Union.

Student pottery sale takes over free speech alley

By Raykael Morris November 14, 2016

University students use their ceramics skills to make hand made pottery pieces to raise funds for the art program as part of The Ceramic Artist Student Association’s bi-annual Ceramic Art and Pottery...